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How this community college is preparing students for careers in aviation

By Cat Wise

According to Boeing, 800,000 new pilots will be needed worldwide over the next 20 years. In Bend, Oregon, a community college is preparing students to resolve this critical need -- and cultivate their own career success. Special correspondent Cat Wise…

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South Pole's ozone hole shrinks to smallest since discovery

By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press

This year's hole is even smaller than the one first discovered in 1985.

Chicago teachers' strike highlights support staff shortages

By Kantele Franko, Associated Press

Unions and professional groups say support staff jobs often are lower priority when budgets are tight, but their absence can have profound effects on student learning and teachers' work.

WATCH: Kirstjen Nielsen does not regret 'enforcing the law' that led to family separations

By Gretchen Frazee

Fortune's inclusion of Nielsen, who implemented President Donald Trump's migrant child separation policy last year, has drawn criticism.

NewsHour's Gwen Ifill memorialized with USPS Forever stamp

By Gretchen Frazee

The stamp which features late PBS NewsHour anchor is one of about 20 new designs announced Tuesday.

Americans will have more choices under Obamacare next year

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press

Health care premiums will dip slightly for many customers, the Trump administration announced Tuesday.

U.S. troops leaving Syria can't stay in Iraq, Iraq's military says

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra, Zeina Karam, Associated Press

The U.S. had planned for troops leaving Syria to go to western Iraq and continue to conduct operations against the Islamic State group to prevent its resurgence in the region.

Jimmy Carter hospitalized after fall at Georgia home

By Associated Press

The former president fracturing his pelvis, although the fracture has been described as minor.

Sanders defends high cost of his 'Medicare for All' plan

By Candice Norwood

Sen. Bernie Sanders defended his “Medicare for All” plan, which has faced criticism from some of his 2020 rivals for its staggering price tag.

$260 million deal averts 1st federal trial on opioid crisis

By Julie Carr Smyth, Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press

Across the U.S., the pharmaceutical industry still faces more than 2,600 other lawsuits over the deadly disaster, and participants in those cases said the latest deal buys them time to try to work out a nationwide settlement of all claims.